BUDDHISM
Ancient faith experiences an explosion of growth in U.S.

STATE-BY-STATE

• BuddhaNet maintains a state-by-state list of Buddhist centers, meditation groups, monasteries and retreat centers, along with contact information for each.

IN THE NORTHEAST
• Joseph Goldstein is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass., where he is part of the IMS Guiding Teacher Council. He is the author of One Dharma: The Emerging Western Buddhism (Harper Collins, 2003). Contact through Gyano Gibson, IMS public relations and communications director, 978-355-4378 ext. 280, gyanog@dharma.org.
• Stephanie Kaza is an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of Vermont in Burlington, where she teaches about religion and ecology, eco-feminism and "unlearning consumerism." She is a Soto Zen practitioner affiliated with Green Gulch Zen Center in California and holds a master's degree in divinity and a doctorate in biology. She is editor of Hooked! Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire and the Urge to Consume (Shambhala Publications, 2005); co-editor of Dharma Rain: Sources of Buddhist Environmentalism (Shambhala Publications, 2000); and the author of The Attentive Heart: Conversations with Trees (Shambhala Publications, 1996). Contact 802-656-0172, Stephanie.kaza@uvm.edu.
• Christopher S. Queen is a lecturer on the study of religion and dean of students for continuing education at Harvard University in Boston, where he teaches courses on Buddhism in America and Buddhism and social change. Read a June 18, 2004, interview he did with the Echo Chamber Project, in which he discusses Buddhism, war, peace and violence in movies. He is editor of Engaged Buddhism in the West (Wisdom Publications, 2000) and co-editor of Action Dharma: New Studies in Engaged Buddhism (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003). Contact 617-495-3481, queen@hudce.harvard.edu.
• Janice Willis is a professor of religion and social sciences at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. She is the author of Dreaming Me: An African American Woman's Spiritual Journey (Riverhead Books, 2001). Read an excerpt on Beliefnet.com. Also read a September 2005 Newsweek profile of Willis, in which she describes her journey from the segregated, revival-preacher South to the Buddhist monastery in Nepal where she began to find peace. Contact 860-685-2298, jwillis@wesleyan.edu.
• Stephen Prothero is chairman of the department of religion at Boston University. He specializes in Asian religions in the United States and is author of The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott (Indiana University Press, 1996). Contact 617-353-4426, prothero@bu.edu.

IN THE EAST
• Richard H. Seager is an associate professor of religious studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. He is studying the globalization and Americanization of Buddhism and is the author of Buddhism in America (Columbia University Press, 2000) and Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai and the Globalization of Buddhism Humanism (forthcoming from University of California Press, 2006). Contact 315-859-4132, rseager@hamilton.edu.
• Jin Y. Park is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy and religion at American University in Washington, D.C. She specializes in Buddhist philosophy; her doctoral dissertation was on Zen Buddhism and postmodern thought. Contact 202-885-2919, jypark@american.edu.
• Charles S. Prebish is a professor of religious studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is a co-founder of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics and can speak about the development of Buddhism in North America and the way the Internet has been used to connect Buddhists worldwide. Contact 814-865-1121, csp1@psu.edu.

IN THE SOUTHEAST
• John D. Dunne is an assistant professor in the religion department at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author of Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy (Wisdom Publications, 2004), an examination of Buddhist epistemology. Dunne has also written about meditation and neuroscience, and his current research focuses on theories of Buddhist mysticism. Contact 404-712-9377, jdunne@emory.edu.
• Mario Poceski is assistant professor of Buddhist studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville, where his work focuses on the Chan school of Chinese Buddhism. Contact 352-392-1625 ext. 233, mpoceski@ufl.edu.
• Steven Heine is professor of religious studies and history and director of the Asian studies program at Florida International University in Miami, where he specializes in Japanese Buddhism and can also speak about contemporary Buddhism in the West. He is the author of White Collar Zen: Using Zen Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Your Career Goals (Oxford University Press, 2005). Contact 305-348-1788, heines@fiu.edu.

IN THE SOUTH
• Jeffrey Samuels is an assistant professor of religious studies at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, where he has studied monastic recruitment and the training of young children as Buddhist novices. He has interviewed monks in Sri Lanka and children in training to become monks, studying how the rituals and aesthetics of Buddhist life inform their decisions and giving them cameras to record their own lives. Contact 270-745-5748, Jeffrey.Samuels@wku.edu.
• Miriam Levering is professor of religious studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where she is the editor of Zen Inspirations: Essential Meditations and Texts (Duncan Baird Publishers, 2004) and can speak about women in Zen Buddhism. Contact 865-974-6979, mleverin@utk.edu.

IN THE MIDWEST
• Daniel A. Arnold is assistant professor of philosophy of religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of Buddhists, Brahmins and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion (Columbia University Press, 2005). Read a Nov. 3, 2005, article he wrote for the online journal Sightings about the controversy surrounding the Dalai Lama's interest in Buddhism and neuroscience. Contact 773-702-8276, d-arnold@uchicago.edu.
• Paul D. Numrich is chairman of the Program in World Religions and Inter-Religious Dialogue at the Theological Consortium of Greater Columbus in Ohio, and affiliate research associate professor in the department of sociology at Loyola University Chicago. While working with the Religion in Urban America Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he directed the Buddhist Chicago Project, through which he visited more than 60 Buddhist temples, centers and groups in the Chicago area, studying Buddhist life in a particular metropolitan setting. Contact 740-362-3443, pnumrich@mtso.edu.
• Charles Hallisey is associate professor of languages and cultures of Asia with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is co-chairman of the American Academy of Religion's Buddhism section and can speak about Theravada Buddhism and Buddhist ethics. Contact 608-262-4943, cshallisey@wisc.edu.
• Donald S. Lopez Jr. is Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he is the author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West (University of Chicago Press, 1999) and editor of Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Read an interview with Lopez from a university publication in which he describes the rising Western interest in Buddhism. Contact dlopez@umich.edu.

IN THE SOUTHWEST
• Anne C. Klein is a professor of Asian religions at Rice University in Houston. The author of five books, she can speak about Indo-Tibetan Buddhist thought and practice and about women in Buddhism. She is also co-founding director of Dawn Mountain, a center in Houston for contemplative study and practice. Contact 713-348-2711, ack@rice.edu.
• Juliane Schober is an associate professor of religious studies at Arizona State University. She has studied Theravada Buddhism in Burma, including Burmese rituals and the veneration of icons. Schober is editor of Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and Southeast Asia (Hawaii University Press, 1997). Contact j.schober@asu.edu.
• Judith Simmer-Brown is a professor of Buddhist studies and chairwoman of the department of religious studies at Naropa University, a college founded in the Buddhist tradition in Boulder, Colo. She can speak about American Buddhism and about Buddhist-Christian dialogue. Read an article Simmer-Brown wrote called "American Buddhism: The Legacy for Our Children." She is the author of Dakini's Warm Breath: The Feminine Principle in Tibetan Buddhism (Shambhala, 2001) and is co-author of Benedict's Dharma: Buddhists Reflect on the Rule of Saint Benedict (Riverhead, 2001). Contact 303-546-3502, jsb@naropa.edu.

IN THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• The Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, founded in 1987, is the only residential Buddhist hospice in the United States, and seeks to be open and present for those facing death. Read a spring 2003 profile of the project from Buddhadharma Magazine. Contact executive director Marion Wilson-Gruzalski, 415-863-2910, marion@zenhospice.org.
• The Rev. Ejo McMullen is resident priest at the Eugene Zendo, a Soto Zen Buddhist temple in Eugene, Ore. Contact 541-302-4576, ejo@eugenezendo.org.
• James William Coleman is a sociology professor at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. He is the author of The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2002). Contact 805-756-1230, jcoleman@calpoly.edu.
• Richard Payne is dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies and professor of Buddhist Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif. He can speak about Tantric rituals and Buddhist spiritual practices. Contact 650-938-7192, rkpayne@earthlink.net.
• José Cabezón is a professor of Tibetan Buddhism and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan Gelukpa order for almost 10 years, living and studying for six years at the Jé College of Sera Monastery in South India. His current research involves Buddhism and sexuality, and the global commodification of Tibet and its culture. He's also involved with the Sera Project, a digital multimedia effort designed to document life in one of Tibet's great monasteries. Contact 805-893-3134, jcabezon@religion.ucsb.edu.
• Franz A. Metcalf teaches comparative religion at California State University in Los Angeles and edits the national newsletter of the Forge Guild of Spiritual Teachers and Leaders. He is the author of Buddha in Your Backpack: Everyday Buddhism for Teens (Seastone, 2003) and What Would Buddha Do?: 101 Answers to Life's Daily Dilemmas (Seastone, 2002); and co-author of What Would Buddha Do at Work: 101 Answers to Workplace Dilemmas (Seastone, 2001). He wrote his doctoral dissertation on "Why Do Americans Practice Zen Buddhism?" Contact 323-467-3267, franzmetcalf@earthlink.net.
• Carl W. Bielefeldt is a professor of religious studies and director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University in California. He specializes in East Asian Buddhism and is editor of the Soto Zen Text Project, which is preparing annotated translations of the scriptures of the Soto school of Japanese Zen. Contact 650-723-0469, carl@stanford.edu.
• William M. Bodiford is professor of Asian languages and cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism (McMillan Reference USA, 2004) and editor of Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya (University of Hawaii Press, 2005). He can speak about Japanese Buddhism, including rituals and worship of local gods. Contact 310-794-8939, bodiford@ucla.edu.